Category: Product Marketing
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Should Product Positioning and Sales Narratives be Different?
Does your product positioning need to be different than your sales narratives? The short and simple answer is no, but it’s highly dependent on how your product positioning is constructed. As a former product marketing manager, I know this all too well and was guilty in the first degree! We tend to overthink our messaging, […]
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Develop a Content Strategy for Product Marketing in 5 Steps
Developing a content strategy for product marketing requires an approach similar to product positioning. It’s about meeting your target customers in their comfort zone with insightful content that strikes an emotional chord. The end game is to open more doors for sales at the decision-maker/influencer level and give them higher quality leads that are warmer […]
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Free eBook: Top-Down Customer Discovery – Uncovering THE BIG WHY
I published this eBook to highlight the number one goal of customer discovery! It’s to make sure the products and services you’re building, marketing, selling and delivering are consistently tied to something that has measurable strategic value to your customers. That’s why the top-down aspect of customer discovery is so critical to success and why […]
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Creating a Value Based Resume – Stop TELLING and Start SELLING
Creating a value based resume means it’s time to treat yourself as a product that has strategic (employer) value. The hard part is avoiding the trap of TELLING employers what the product (you) does versus SELLING its value. Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former […]
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Market Segmentation: The Key to Unlocking Your Product’s Marketing Potential in B2B
If you’re a dog or cat owner and your clothing and furniture are covered in pet hair, do you reach for the generic lint roller, or do you buy the “pet hair pick-up,” a product that’s basically a lint roller with your furry friends on the label? Most pet owners will choose the pet hair […]
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Creating a Sales Playbook: 5 Must-Haves
The whole point of creating a sales playbook is to give your sales team “situational sales tools” that make them highly effective in every part of the sales process. The end game is shorter sales cycles where your products and services are the clear choice. What is a Sales Playbook? A sales playbook is a […]
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Product Management University Launches The Customer Outcome Framework for Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success
One View of the Customer. No Silos. Measurable Customer Value. Today, Product Management University announced the availability of its Customer Outcome Framework for B2B. It’s a simpler approach for bringing quantifiable strategic value to the customer versus the typical approach of focusing solely on customer problems. The Customer Outcome Framework The Customer Outcome Framework employs […]
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Product Marketing Roadmaps – Your Revenue Destination With Turn-by-Turn Directions
Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals. What is a Product Marketing Roadmap? […]
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5 Most Effective Techniques for Gathering Voice of Customer (VoC) Data in B2B
Voice of the Customer (VoC) data gives B2B organizations deeper insights into the business of their target customers so they can build, market, sell, and deliver higher-value products and services that lead to more consistent and predictable growth. In B2B though, voice of customer data is used for more than just products. It’s the foundation […]
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Product Led Growth and Product Marketing’s Growing Influence on Product Design in B2B
B2B product marketing changes significantly in a product led growth (PLG) model because the manner in which you’re positioning, marketing and selling your products is completely different than a direct sales model. If you’re a product marketer, one of the biggest changes in a PLG model is your growing involvement and influence on product design. […]